Meeting the Moment

<p><b>Inspiring stories of six US presidents and the distinctive leadership characteristics that set them apart and transformed America.</b></p><p><b>Finalist for the 2024 </b><b><i>F</i></b><b>oreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category</b></p><p>The histories presented here are of a select group of US presidents their inspired leadership characteristics and how they may inspire us today. The traits these presidents possessed were cultivated over a lifetime of lived experience and immortalized through the power of the presidential word-speeches letters and addresses-which collectively represent the most transcendent documents in American history. Viewed through the lens of nuance complication human emotion pathos and drama William Haldeman sets forth the lives of these presidents in ways to help inform our own lives from leveraging our experience and instincts to making the right calls when they matter the most. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach Haldeman appeals to both scholars and general audience readers alike offering a refreshing view of presidential leadership that not only elevates leadership as a central part of the scholarly field but also broadly engages American presidency enthusiasts and readers of history biography politics and leadership development.</p>